girding
See also: girðing
English edit
Verb edit
girding
- present participle and gerund of gird
Noun edit
girding (plural girdings)
- A binding or encircling.
- 1823, Charles Butler, A continuation of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints to the Present Time, page 23:
- Bossuet thus beautifully addresses the Saviour of the world, when the girdings of his childhood were first untied […]